It takes a federal government to raise a parking lot

Fresh on the heels of the senate's passage of their version of the "stimulus" plan comes this delightful piece at Newsbusters.org.
When Laura Ingraham pressed RINO Arlen Spector (R?-PA) on the job creating ability of the package, he included this little gem:

"And I talked to the mayor of a major city this morning that has a parking plot
going up, which is out of money and the work can go forward this afternoon."

There you have it folks. This is the kind of project that municipalities, states, and the private sector just can't handle alone. This is the kind of project that we can look toward to get Americans back to work. Building parking lots.

Nice one.

Now, you might say, "Hey, I know unemployed construction workers. Maybe this isn't so bad."
Aha! But remember that Robert Reich said at the Economic Recovery Plan Meeting in January:

"if construction jobs go mainly to white males who already dominate the
construction trades, many people who need jobs the most -- women, minorities,
and the poor and long-term unemployed -- will be shut out."

So we not only want to build a grand federal ediface of a parking garage, but we want to build it NOT with people who already know what they are doing, who already "dominate the construction trades", but with people who are not employed in the construction field today.

Honestly, I'd prefer to park my car in a building constructed by the people who "dominate the construction trades."

Lest anyone take the wrong emphasis from this, I'm scoffing at the idea of non-construction workers being first in line for construction jobs - regardless of race or whatever.

Hey, I've never dominated the brain surgery field. Will this stimulus plan make me first in line for a job in that trade?